Metroid's Heroine Won't Fight In The New Dead or Alive

Dead or Alive: Dimensions for the Nintendo 3DS will feature a cameo from Metroid hunter Samus Aran, but she won't be jiggling alongside the rest of the DOA cast. Samus, sadly, won't be playable in the game.

To be perfectly fair, Nintendo I think does (now) seem to have issues with putting their characters in other games. Remember how Marvel Ultimate Alliance for the Wii was planned to have Samus in it (check youtube for the footage) but Nintendo told the developers to take her out.

It really seems like Namco scored big with letting Link be in Soul Calibur II.